S3Drive - Access to Android data folder

Can your app find a way to directly access the app's file data in the Android / data / folder (first Android 13 / 14 restrictions, third party apps cannot directly access everything in this folder but can apply for appropriate permissions) to avoid such errors?

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7:35 PM

Is it folder upload? Did S3Drive ask you for necessary folder permission during select mode? What's the source folder that causing these issues? Do you mean that other apps can read from that folder just fine?

Tom

Is it folder upload? Did S3Drive ask you for necessary folder permission during select mode? What's the source folder that causing these issues? Do you mean that other apps can read from that folder just fine?

no I've selected all the video files in the local

3:48 AM

The path as you can see ordinary application access is not able to get any content under / Android / data file, but some videos are saved in such a file.

Was it: "Upload files" function?

yes

8:28 AM

look at this :https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/forum/topic/0202117747566034648

8:29 AM

Application developers need to write the appropriate code to request such permission to read the directory normally

Tom changed the channel name: Upload files permission issue on Huawei 3/14/2024 9:14 AM

Access to Android/data have been severely restricted since Android 13. This guy explains how to access Android/data from native Files app, given you uninstall update first: https://youtu.be/I_1ng7IP38w?t=96 There isn't much we can do with S3Drive. It seems that Google isn't really keen on changing that, based on: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/256669329?pli=1 As you rightly suggested this can be workarounded with some Shizuku dependencies: https://shizuku.rikka.app/guide/setup/ but vast majority of users won't be able to go that way and it's not really a reliable way forwards. If there is any reliable way to have access to data in the future then we're keen to have it implemented. At the moment we have no idea if there is any way / workaround. More links: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/173lsrc/android_14_storage_access_framework_no_longer/

Tom changed the channel name: Access to Android data folder 3/17/2024 11:18 AM

Tom

Access to Android/data have been severely restricted since Android 13. This guy explains how to access Android/data from native Files app, given you uninstall update first: https://youtu.be/I_1ng7IP38w?t=96 There isn't much we can do with S3Drive. It seems that Google isn't really keen on changing that, based on: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/256669329?pli=1 As you rightly suggested this can be workarounded with some Shizuku dependencies: https://shizuku.rikka.app/guide/setup/ but vast majority of users won't be able to go that way and it's not really a reliable way forwards. If there is any reliable way to have access to data in the future then we're keen to have it implemented. At the moment we have no idea if there is any way / workaround. More links: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/173lsrc/android_14_storage_access_framework_no_longer/

Could you perhaps add the shizuku workaround as an option for interested users / Or simply post an apk version with access to android data without necessarily posting any source code? Internet apk stores already have newer apk versions of your app since you dropped it from github. I believe it should be considered for pro android users who need it like me and OP. Thanks again for this app

Crims

Could you perhaps add the shizuku workaround as an option for interested users / Or simply post an apk version with access to android data without necessarily posting any source code? Internet apk stores already have newer apk versions of your app since you dropped it from github. I believe it should be considered for pro android users who need it like me and OP. Thanks again for this app

We will have this on the radar, however we can't tell exactly when we manage to research this Shizuku thing. Our APK was released on Github to loosen up storage/file permissions, but that has landed in official Google Play release, so the Github APK would've been exactly the same. These restrictions doesn't seem to be related to the way how we distribute the app, but rather what OS the end device runs. (edited)

provide shizuku tutorials and functions in S3drive in future features after a few months is just fine, for our personality users here, 60% users don't know about this or they don't realize this